Blue Light

UC Irvine Studio Theater

The legacy of mining in the Santa Ana Mountains is full of deep holes where todays adolescents explore, hide, and perhaps find themselves: its an easy metaphor for coming of age in a grown-up world that tries to bury wildness and imagination. Sealed off by the U.S. Forest Service, the caverns and tunnels of Silverado Canyons famous Blue Light mine complex once lured young adventurers who found mystery, but lost their lives. This multi-media performance by choreographer Annie Loui and novelist Michelle Latiolais follows two fictionalized local high school water polo players into a world of water and wonder, light and darkness.
Thu., Jan. 28, 8 p.m., 2010